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From: John Boyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 7:27 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [users] Re: http://www.saveXP.org/ [WAS: Wrong OS or OS
Version]
Importance: High
Harold Fuchs wrote:
> On 11/06/2008 21:59, Dave Craven wrote:
>> I dunno about Canadian, but for US address correction right from
USPS,
>> all you need is the ability to send and receive/parse XML. I've done
it
>> in other languages, but should be quite doable in something cross
>> platform like perl. You need an account, which is free to set up,
and
>> are limited to 5 addresses at a time.
>>
>>
> The point is that to get the job done under Linux you have to *write
> software*. People who want to do address correction don't want to have
> to write software. In any language. Ever. It's not their bag at all.
> They are experts in other things. Would you drive a car you had to
> service yourself? Crack your own oil to make the petrol ("gas")?
>
To Harold Fuchs, et al: I am surprised at your attitude in regards to
Linux,
There are too many programs available, by developers, to make any sense
of what your statements are saying! What a shame as I had thought you
were more intelligent than that! I am NOT a programmer nor a developer
but, thought you would have understood what I was saying more than
anyone else! I am sorely disappointed and confused at your attitude in
regards to this situation, when it is obvious you have not done the
research and found programs on Linux that, if not completely
satisfactory, at least the beginnings of what are what is needed. I am
really surprised at what you are now saying in regards to same!
If I had the spare cycles, I'd coble together a USPS address validation
macro. I've never written in Star Basic, so there'd be a bit of a
learning curve. I did a little looking around and saw that the language
has a SAX parser, etc., so it looks like it should be quite doable.
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